A compleat treatise of the muscles as they appear in humane body, and arise in dissection with diverse anatomical observations not yet discover'd : illustrated by near fourty copper-plates, accurately delineated and engraven / by John Browne ...

Flexor Pollicis.

THe Great Toe hath allowed it variety of Muscles,* 1.1 the first of which is this arising sharp and Fleshy about the middle of the back part of the Fibula, descending larger, nearer the inward Malleolus, running obliquely under it, and is inserted into the last Bone of the Great Toe; Under this Ligament lodgeth the Os Sesamoides.

This Tendon is seen sometimes to conjoyn with the Tendon bending the third Joynt,* 1.2 running to the second Toe, and be∣fore it reacheth the second Joynt of the Great Toe, requires the largest Os Sesamoides, which is in the other Joynts of the Toes.

This you have at Tab. 37. Fig. 2. c. Shewing its Tendon, D. D. D. Shews its Fleshy part, Tab. 36. Fig. 1. at N. you have it laid bare, M. Shews this at Tab. 34. Fig. 1. N. Shews its long and narrow Tendon, I. I. Shews the same exactly at Tab ejusd. Fig. 2. K. K. Shews its Tendon, N. Shews this laid bare at Tab. 36. Fig. 2.

Notes

• * 1.1

  This bends the Great Toe.
• * 1.2

  Obs.